Material Cultures of Psychiatry (Edition 1)

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020; Transcript Verlag
• Edition: 1
• Series: Histoire
• Subjects: 19th; 19th/20th Century; 20th Century; Book Industry Communication; Cultural History; Culture & institutions; Europe; History; History and Archaeology; History of Medicine; History: specific events & topics; History: specific events and topics; Hospital; Humanities; Material Cultures; Medical Ethics; Medicine; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; North America; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychological theory & schools of thought; Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints; Psychology; Social & cultural history; Social and cultural history; Social History; Society & social sciences; Society and Social Sciences; thema EDItEUR
• ISBN: 3839447887; 9783839447888; 9783837647884; 3837647889

In the past, our ideas of psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. These powerful objects were often used as a synonym for psychiatry and the way psychiatric patients were treated, yet very little is known about the agency of these objects and their appropriation by staff and patients. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry: it enables a narrative in which practicing psychiatry is part of a complex entanglement in which power is constantly negotiated. Scholars from different academic disciplines show how this material-based approach opens up new perspectives on the agency and imagination of men and women inside psychiatry.